bug#19552: 25.0.50; void-function class-slot-initarg with new EIEIO changes

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Sun, Jan 11 2015, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 10 2015, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>>
>>> It does work in emacs -Q, [...]
>>
>> A minimal recipe starting from emacs -Q that shows hows to reproduce the
>> problem would presumably be helpful.
>
> This wasn't intended to be a bug report.  Just a note in case it rings
> a bell somewhere.

Sorry for the somewhat irritated and unfriendly tone of my response (I
meant: if I had had the time to debug this I wouldn't have sent that not
so helpful note in the first place).

However, it seems the reason for the breakage is the following:

I use gnus from the development repository http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git,
so that ~/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus is a symlink to the `lisp'
subdirectory of my local gnus repo clone.

I my ~/.emacs I have

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/share/emacs/site-lisp")
(let ((default-directory "~/share/emacs/site-lisp"))
  (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))

and this adds also gnus/gnus-fallback-lib/eieio to the load path, so
that the files there shadow the regular eieio stuff.

Wolfgang